netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

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Message-Id: <20090220.004513.117109293.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:45:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:39:35 +0800

> So assuming that IPTUNNEL_ERR_TIMEO > 0, then the macro version
> wraps around after the open-coded version, which would seem to
> mean that it's better, no?

Seems that way...

Let me see if I can find Alexey's email where he explains
all of this.  I really don't want to touch these things
without being able to read that again.

If anyone else can find his posting about this stuff from
years ago, please post the link.

Thanks.
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